Re: [rfc/patch] libata -- port configurable delays

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 16:26:08 EST


On Gwe, 2005-05-13 at 19:58, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> is available at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/simple-aio-min_nr.c).
> Before this patch __delay() is the number one entry in oprofile
> results for this workload. Does this look like a reasonable approach
> for chipsets that aren't completely braindead? Cheers,

If your chipset implements the 400nS lockout in hardware it certainly
seems to make sense. Nice to know someone has put it in hardware

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